Fourth Diesel fragrance for men and fifth overall reviewed here, with Diesel Only The Brave perfume they decided to go less cold and citrusy than in Fuel For Life, and take the sweet road instead. The opening is indeed quite fresh, with orange and mandarin but the fragrance soon becomes sweet, although in a non-powdery way, also adding clean florals. It goes on blending in green and aromatic notes, and amber as well, but they are all sort [...] Read more »
Tommy Hilfiger perfume for women starts with pear, which is light and bright but distinct, mixed with mandarin and orange. It soon adds florals and becomes one of those perfumes for women that play on the line between fruity and floral (like Lalique by Lalique, I Love Love by Moschino, or Especially Escada for example) and with no caramel sweetness thrown in. And this is where the issue with this perfume Tommy Girl begins. The fruits and the [...] Read more »
It’s only the third Chanel perfume for men that I’ve reviewed so far (or should I say the second, as one was Allure Homme Sport and the other one was its close fresher cousin Allure Homme Edition Blanche), but I think I’m starting to see a pattern: they’re all similar to stuff that you may have smelt before, but with a sort of Chanel-ness in them, which makes them classier and with better quality. Rather than fresh, Chanel Bleu [...] Read more »
The Laura Biagiotti VENEZIA fragrance can finally be purchased on line on the www.veneziabylaurabiagiotti.com site. Laura Biagiotti’s VENEZIA, the designer’s cult fragrance, after years of absence and countless requests from admirers worldwide returns this year in a new version, pure expression of contemporary femininity. Laura Biagiotti’s VENEZIA is a fragrance capable of evoking a world of poetry and imagination, it is devoted to the most magical of cities, a place to be admired and to fall in love [...] Read more »
Find your Sense of Scent This is a guest post by Saisha Potts from Cafe La Moda, the social space for fashion tips and makeup & beauty advice. She hopes this artilce will inspire you to find your perfect fragrance. Scent is one of the most influential and important of our senses. Able to attract and seduce just as easy as to deter and repel, a certain smell can act as a very powerful and personal trigger for [...] Read more »
Especially Escada starts velvety and floral with a good dose of juicy pear as a counterpart. The fruity notes are ripe, but with a controlled sweetness and rose is the main flower (also, the ad with Israeli model Bar Refaeli is all about roses), but it’s deprived of its headiness and softened by the fruits, so chances are, you may feel the bouquet quite generic, with only a spicy hint here and there. For a good while Perfume [...] Read more »
After reading the whole story of its creation in Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent I had great expectations for this one. I know Jean-Claude Ellena is a regular reader of this blog (OK, that is, of course, not true, but wouldn’t it be cool if it was, and throw this out in your face with fake casualness?), so I’m sure he’ll understand, after all, his Declaration is my favourite perfume. OK I’ll say it in one single breath: [...] Read more »
First and foremost: of all the perfumes that I had and have, Emporio Armani City Glam For Him is the most appreciated by the ladies. And that is the second main reason why I keep on buying it, the first being that I really really like it. OK… no point in lying here: both reasons are true, but it’s actually the other way round. In any case, the best candidate for yournextperfume’s 100th perfume review. The fragrance opens [...] Read more »
This Joe Malone perfume is more than it says on the bottle, and the extra bit is a fragrant clove, which took a while on the blotter to come out, but my skin gave back fairly quickly. Other than giving me a pleasant WTF perfume moment (it doesn’t happen very often, last time it was with Declaration by Cartier two months ago), clove took what would have otherwise been a very sophisticated shaving foam (lavender and amber are of [...] Read more »
Don’t be fooled by the gentle look of mimosa, the main note of this Une Fleur de Cassie by Frederic Malle: this perfume can be very gentle if you decide to oversee some of its qualities, but hard to appreciate if you stop to smell it for real. Of course it will still be floral and it will be – or at least try to be – delicate. If it’s slow enough to evolve on your skin, you may [...] Read more »
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